Please remind me why can't we permanently reprogram alien mechanical units. I mean, we can already end up a mission with drones under X-Com control - which then disappear mysteriously after the mission.

I am glad you like it! I never met 3 sectopods in the new XCOM game, but in the old one i sometimes had 4 of them Thank you for the nice comment and the fav - feel free to join my XCOM group! I'll send you an invitation!

That,s a very large armor plate and I would think it would be more suited to ballistic deffence, as the secto-pod was never designed to get this close. But I can see where your coming from with that, the xenos alliance in xcom has achieved wonders with technology, so how about this friend, we agree to disagree.